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Sophie Pinkham recently received a PhD in Slavic languages and literature from Columbia. She is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
A new Hulu show presents the life of the Russian empress as a narrative of lean-in empowerment. But was it?
April 23, 2020
As overdose deaths climb, advocates and activists fear the opioid crisis will run headlong into the Covid-19 crisis.
A new book looks at the history of a century-long movement to create life after death.
May 3, 2018
In The Road to Unfreedom , Snyder’s vision of history driven by rival states and ruthless statesmen undermines his own insistence on the importance of individual responsibility.
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December 14, 2017
Anne Applebaum's new history of the Ukrainian famine illustrates the perils of using the past in service of today's politics.
How historians narrate 1917 tells us as much about their politics as it does about what we can learn from the revolution’s failures.
Seventy years of victory in Russia and Ukraine.
The life and work of Victor Serge represents the Russian democratic revolution that never was.
No one dies for poetry anymore, not even in Russia. Enter the oligarchs, who steer clear of Putin’s ire by sponsoring literary prizes.
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